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Biography
Alan Jilka is a Kansas politician and writer. He is a former three-term Mayor and City Commissioner of Salina, Kansas; and he is Democrat Nominee for the 1st Congressional District of Kansas in the U.S. House.
Early life
Jilka is a Catholic of Czech-descent. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in History, and also has an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of South Carolina. He has finished the coursework towards a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese from Vanderbilt University, and has lived four years in Guadalajara, Mexico and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Career
Alan Jilka began his political career as a legislative aide to Congressman Dan Glickman (D-KS). He is a writer on various weblogs and newspaper sites such as the Kansas Free Press, on issues of business and politics.
Jilka was a three-term Mayor and City Commissioner of Salina, Kansas, and Democrat Nominee for the 1st Congressional District of Kansas in the U.S. House. He lost that election in 2010 to Tim Huelskamp.